New Hampshire Statewide Assessment System 2017-2018 Science Fall Training November 6 – 9, 2017

Presenters American Institutes for Research (AIR) Tom Glorfield – Senior Program Manager Evelyn Chester– Senior Project Coordinator Josh Smith – Director of Science Development NH Department of Education Sandie MacDonald – Bureau Administrator Julie Couch – Assessment Administrator Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research

Presentation Overview AIR Overview NH SAS Overview Overview of the testing systems Assessment Portal Secure Browser Test Information Distribution Engine (TIDE) Test Delivery System (TDS) – Test Administrator (TA) Interface AIR Ways Online Reporting System (ORS) Important Dates Questions/Answers Science Test Overview Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research

American Institutes for Research (AIR) Not-for-profit organization founded after World War II Conducts work with strict independence, objectivity, and non- partisanship Consists of approximately 1,800 people dedicated to development, research, evaluation, and technical assistance for: Assessment Education Health and Wellness International Development Assessment focuses on online testing and emphasizes: Innovative item types Accessibility Adaptive testing Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research

AIR Assessment Delivers state wide assessments in 26 states Delivers on-line tests to about 1/3 of the nation’s students Supports general education, alternate, & English proficiency tests Supported peak concurrent load of ~700,000 tests in 2016. Expanding capacity to support 3 million concurrent tests in 2017- 2018 Has delivered NH tests since 2014-15 AIR is excited to support NH SAS Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research

NH Statewide Assessment System (SAS) Interim/Summative assessment program ELA and Math; grades 3-8 Science, grades 5, 8, and 11 (new for 2017-2018) Interims: delivered at any time during the testing window Summative: Spring 2018 test, delivered once No longer a Smarter Balanced assessment New test items, aligned to New Hampshire’s content standards No need to order paper materials (all done through the online system) Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research

Paper Materials – “Print on Demand” For those students needing a paper test accommodation, we will be utilizing the Print on Demand functionality within the testing system. Student requests printed material via the student interface, System prints out a few questions, to maintain computer adaptiveness of the test, Test Administrator receives/approves request then prints the test questions for the student, Student inputs their answers into the online system, Repeat as necessary. Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research

AIR Testing Systems Assessment Portal – Access to all systems and resources. Secure Browser – Secure testing application; required to be installed on each system used for testing; blocks any outside access to other systems. Test Information Distribution Engine (TIDE) – User and Student management including test settings and accommodations. Administrative tasks such as appeals, participation reports, etc. Test Delivery System (TDS) – The testing system, both the student and teacher interface AIR Ways Reporting – Reporting system for Interims and Benchmark Modular assessments Assessment Viewing Application (AVA) – View Interim Assessments prior to administering them Online Reporting System (ORS) – Reporting system for summative assessments Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research

System-Specific Help/User Guides Each system has its own User Guide The User Guides are accessible through the Help menu of each system, and Each User Guide is available on the Assessment Portal, upon system go-live Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research

NH Assessment Portal URL: http://nh.portal.airast.org/ Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research

Secure Browser Must be installed on all systems used by students for testing A new Secure Browser has been created for the 17-18 administration Download from NH SAS Portal http://nh.portal.airast.org/browsers/ Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research

Test Information Distribution Engine (TIDE) Navigating to and logging into TIDE Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research

TIDE home page Before During After Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research

Test Administrator Interface and Test Delivery System (TDS) SAMPLE Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research

AIR Ways Provides student performance reports for the Interim Assessments Consists of a Dashboard page and various Assessment Reports Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research

SAMPLE AIR Ways - Dashboard Dashboard: summary of all the assessments associated with a user/institution SAMPLE Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research

AIR Ways – Assessment Reports Assessment Reports: provided detailed performance data for each assessment SAMPLE Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research

Important Dates (tentative) Interim Assessment window: 11/21/17 – 6/8/18 Summative Assessment window: 3/13/18 – 6/8/18 Secure Browser GO-LIVE: 11/10/17 Training/Practice test GO-LIVE: 11/15/17 TIDE GO-LIVE: 11/17/17 TDS GO-LIVE: 11/21/17 AIR Ways GO-LIVE: 11/21/17 ORS GO-LIVE: TBD Webinar schedule: Technical Requirements – 11/15/17 TIDE – 11/28/17 AIR Ways – 11/30/17 More to come in late 2017, early 2018 Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research

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Thank You!!! Contact Us Your Contact at the DOE New Hampshire Statewide Assessment System Help Desk 1-844-202-7584 nhhelpdesk@air.org Your Contact at the DOE Julie Couch – Assessment Administrator 603-271-0058 Julie.Couch@doe.nh.gov Copyright 2017 - New Hampshire Department of Education, American Institutes for Research